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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<html newsdate="2023-02-20">
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<version>1</version>
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<head>
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<title>Let's code!</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>Let's code!</h1>
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<p>Youth Hacking 4 Freedom, FSFE's coding competition for young
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Europeans, has just started. The kick-off event took place on the 26th
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of January with an online meeting for the participants of this year's
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competition. There they got the most important information about the
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contest while starting to get to know each other.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/1d/78/0fe59f43fcf66ce5a1631508883f.jpg"
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alt="The coding period of this new edition has started" />
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</figure>
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<p>Almost 70 young people from all over Europe have signed up for the
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new edition of Youth Hacking 4 Freedom. During the contest they not
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only have the chance to work on their own Free Software projects, but
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also to win great cash prizes.</p>
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<p>The kick-off meeting for this project took place on 26th January
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with an online event where participants had the chance to get their
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questions answered about the coding requirements and the coding period,
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which will end on 30th June. It was a fun event which gave everybody
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the chance to get to know each other a bit better and to meet other
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participants from all across Europe. However, the FSFE team was also
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excited to learn about the participants and to find out what they are
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looking forward to in the upcoming months.</p>
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<p>One of this edition's participants, 1337misom*, explains his
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motivation.</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p><em>“I have never really released any of my projects because
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they mainly solved problems for myself and weren't optimized for ease
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of use etc. So this will be my first shot at actually creating a
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program that lasts for more than a few weeks".</em></p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>The opportunity to work on a project they are really interested in, as well
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as gaining experience and having fun, is the main reason given by the
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participants. Jannes*, who has already taken part in the first edition
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of the contest last year, said that he joined "to have fun, meet
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exciting people with even more exciting ideas and develop a (hopefully)
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useful program in a limited time".</p>
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<p>Over the coming months, participants will have the opportunity to
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discuss their projects once a month in an online meeting as well as
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through the dedicated Youth Hacking 4 Freedom Matrix room, where FSFE's
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team is also available to answer questions. These channels allow
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teenagers to share their ideas and questions, receive feedback from
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their peers, and see what other participants are working on.</p>
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<figure>
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<peertube url="https://media.fsfe.org/w/wWUP7M5fJg2FcvG2Fv12sN" />
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<figcaption>
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Watch the video of the two day trip to Brussels where the winners
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met, explored the city, and received their awards. For subtitles,
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watch it in our <a href="https://media.fsfe.org/w/wWUP7M5fJg2FcvG2Fv12sN">Peertube
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instance</a>
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>The road to the awards ceremony in Brussels has already begun, and
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although most of the participants are not yet thinking about this
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event, they are excited about the opportunity to present a good and
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practical project and to have their code judged by a panel of experts.
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And although winning is not their main motivation, of course, “nobody
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is bitter for a sweet". <strong>Good luck!</strong>
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</p>
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<p><em>*we are using the names that the participants are using in the internal contest Matrix chat.</em></p>
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</body>
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<tags>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="yh4f">Youth Hacking 4 Freedom</tag>
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</tags>
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<discussion href="https://community.fsfe.org/t/998"/>
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<image url="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/1d/78/0fe59f43fcf66ce5a1631508883f.jpg"
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alt="The coding period of this new edition has started"/>
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</html>
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